Ørsted will switch to 100% EVs by 2025. The company's Head of Strategy and Communication is pictured with an EV from its fleet.

Over the past decade Ørsted has transformed its energy generation from fossil fuels to renewables faster than any other energy company. The company has reduced its carbon emissions from energy generation by 83% and is on track to meet its target of a 98% reduction of carbon emissions by 2025. Its offshore wind farms today bring clean energy to more than 12 million people.

Denmark-headquartered Ørsted has now taken another step in tackling carbon emissions by committing to phase out diesel- and petrol-powered vehicles in the company’s car fleet and replacing them with electric vehicles (EVs), including battery-powered and hybrid vehicles.

“We’ve made great strides in switching power generation to green energy, and the next big challenge will be the transport sector, which at the moment is predominantly based on fossil fuels. Fortunately, big technological advances are being made at the moment, making electric vehicles competitive. That is why we’ve decided that, from 2021, we’ll only buy and lease electric vehicles, and that our entire fleet will be electric by 2025,” says Jakob Askou Bøss, Head of Strategy & Communication at Ørsted.

Ørsted’s car fleet consists of 340 utility vehicles and passenger cars, of which 22% are EVs. Ørsted will also install and upgrade EV charging points and associated infrastructure at its largest office locations and continue to collaborate with car-sharing companies that offer shared EVs.

First Danish company in EV100
With its commitment to a 100% EV fleet, Ørsted becomes the first Danish member of EV100, a global initiative for companies working to accelerate the transition to electric vehicles towards 2030. EV100 was founded by The Climate Group, which welcomes Ørsted as a member:

"Ørsted is showing how large businesses can deliver the dream of truly clean transport, electric vehicles powered by renewable energy, in a matter of years not decades. We’re thrilled to welcome Ørsted onboard as the first Danish company within the EV100 initiative. Climate action requires more urgency, and Ørsted’s targets to achieve a 100% EV fleet within five years is showing impressive leadership in the energy sector and across global business more widely," says Luke Herbert, International Communications Director at The Climate Group.

Ørsted’s plan for a 100% EV fleet in 2025 is based on battery-electric and plug-in hybrid vehicles that live up to EV100’s requirements for EVs.

About Ørsted
Ørsted’s vision is a world that runs entirely on green energy. The company develops, constructs and operates offshore and onshore wind farms, bioenergy plants and innovative waste-to-energy solutions and provides smart energy products to its customers.

• Operates in Europe, East Asia and the US, where Ørsted has recently been awarded about 2 gigawatts of offshore wind projects in New Jersey and New York states.

• By mid-2019, 82% of the company’s energy generation was based on renewable energy sources. The figure will rise to 99% in 2025.

• Ranked most sustainable power company and fourth most sustainable company in the world in the 2019 Global100 index.

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The Ørsted vision is a world that runs entirely on green energy. Ørsted develops, constructs and operates offshore and onshore wind farms, solar farms, energy storage facilities, and bioenergy plants, and provides energy products to its customers. Ørsted ranks #1 in Corporate Knights' 2020 index of the Global 100 most sustainable corporations in the world and is recognised on the CDP Climate Change A List as a global leader on climate action. Headquartered in Denmark, Ørsted employs 6,600 people. Ørsted's shares are listed on Nasdaq Copenhagen (Orsted). In 2019, the group's revenue was DKK 67.8 billion (EUR 9.1 billion).

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